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Baltimore police announced an arrest in connection with Monday's double-stabbing along York Road, but the identity of the victim remains unclear. A male died in the stabbing, which took place around 8:40 p.m. on April 14 in the 5100 block of York Road. Police Thursday declined to release the name of the victim, saying in a statement the name "has been withheld to further investigative efforts. " Jimy James Jackson, 24, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing.

A 17-year-old has been arrested and charged with the Halloween night killing of an Army veteran and airport shuttle bus driver who was in a North Baltimore carryout getting dinner as three masked men robbed the corner establishment. Markell Shelton Jones of the 2300 block of Westerwald Ave. was charged as an adult with first-degree murder, two counts of assault, armed robbery and several handgun counts. He lives about eight blocks from where the slaying occurred, in the Better Waverly neighborhood.

Police arrested a man suspected of organizing a dogfighting ring after finding 15 pit bulls, four of them puppies, chained in the basement of his home in the Mosher neighborhood of West Baltimore on Tuesday. Investigators were met by sights of dogfighting equipment, "dogs chained to the walls" and "lots of blood splattered on carpets and walls" when they executed a search warrant in the 2800 block of W. Lafayette St., officials said at a Tuesday news conference. The pit bulls were taken to the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter.

City police made an arrest Friday in a 2007 killing that occurred in Northwest Baltimore, near Reisterstown Road and West Cold Spring Lane. Mark Durand Winchester, 31, of the 4300 block of Reisterstown Road is charged with first-degree murder in the July 14, 2007, shooting death of Yemel McMillan, 23. McMillan was shot in the head in the 2800 block of Boarman Ave., about a mile south of Pimlico Race Course , police said. He was one of four fatal shootings that July weekend.

Baltimore County police charged a 20-year-old Dundalk man Tuesday with first-degree murder in his roommate's death. Edwin Alexander Iglesias-Reyes is accused of stabbing Victor DeJesus Portillo-Portillo, 26, of the 400 block of Scarsdale Road multiple times on Monday. Police said he then fled the home, leaving a trail of blood from the basement into a rear alley where a knife was found. Officers found blood around the surrounding neighborhood. The roommates had gotten into an fight but police said it's unclear what the argument was about.

Looks like police in Ferguson, Mo., took it upon themselves to suspend the First Amendment Wednesday night. It seems two reporters, Ryan Reilly of the Huffington Post and Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post, were working at a McDonald's, which has been used as a staging ground by reporters covering the ongoing unrest following the Aug. 9 police shooting of an unarmed African-American man. According to their accounts, the two were accosted by...

As a young man just out of graduate school in 1969, Charles Wellford approached the Baltimore Police Department with a pitch: to let him do a survey of citizens who called 911 to find out whether residents were satisfied with the police response. To his surprise, then-Police Commissioner Donald D. Pomerleau enthusiastically said yes. Forty-one years later, Wellford, 71, a criminology professor at the University of Maryland, College Park will again be reviewing the Police Department's effectiveness — this time as an auditor as part of a court settlement in which police vowed to distance themselves from "zero tolerance" policies and better track citizen complaints.

County police have captured one of the two men who escaped from security guards at District Court in Annapolis three weeks ago.A District Court commissioner ordered Donald Lelander Curtis, 21, held without bond after police found him in a Glen Burnie neighborhood yesterday morning.County police spokesman V. Richard Molloy said police received a tip that Curtis, who escaped from police custody Sept. 3, was in Faywood Court in Glen Burnie.Officer William Selander followed up on the tip and found Curtis at about 10:30 a.m., Molloy said.

A 24-year-old Halethorpe man has been charged in connection with one of three recent home-invasion robberies in which armed men identified themselves as police officers and broke into homes in three different parts of the city, bound the occupants and stole money. The arrest of Lamel Pierce is linked to the first in the series of break-ins, which occurred June 27 in the 1500 block of Medford Road in Northeast Baltimore. Police are seeking two other suspects in that case. Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the Medford Road robbery is linked to drugs and is not connected to the other two attacks — on Elkins Lane in South Baltimore on July 1 and on West Garrison Avenue on July 5. No arrests have been made in those cases.

Baltimore Police arrested two teenagers Sunday in the beating death of a 51-year-old Highlandtown woman who was found dead inside her home Friday. Commissioner Anthony W. Batts held a news conference at police headquarters to announce the arrests of Alonzo Gorham-Ramos, 14, and Allen Pinkney, 16. Kimberly Leto, of the 400 block of S. Ellwood Ave., was found dead inside her home overlooking Patterson Park early Friday with what police described as "upper body trauma. " A neighbor said she was told by police the home had been broken into from the rear, and a chair could be observed pushed under the rear kitchen window, which was half-open.